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From: Jeff Garzik
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Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 1:47 pm
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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>> The only architecture problem that isn't solvable in this context is >> the problem of supporting the crazy hypervisor on the ppc RTAS, which >> asks us to drive the hardware but does not give us access to the >> hardware registers. > > So you are saying that we should use your model while admitting that it > can't solve our problems... > > I really don't understand why you seem so totally opposed to Michael's > approach which definitely looks to me like the sane thing to do. Note > that in the end, Michael's approach isn't -that- different from yours, > just a bit more abstracted.
I think the high-level ops approach makes more sense. It's more future proof, in addition to covering all existing implementations. Jeff -
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[PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:40 pm)
[PATCH 1/6] msi: Kill msi_lookup_irq
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:42 pm)
[PATCH 2/6] msi: Remove msi_lock.
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:44 pm)
[PATCH 3/6] msi: Fix msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors.
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:45 pm)
[PATCH 4/6] msi: Remove attach_msi_entry.
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:47 pm)
[PATCH 5/6] msi: Kill the msi_desc array.
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:52 pm)
[PATCH 6/6] msi: Make MSI useable more architectures
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 12:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Sun Jan 28, 1:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Jeff Garzik
, (Sun Jan 28, 1:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 2:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Ingo Molnar
, (Sun Jan 28, 2:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 2:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/6] msi: Kill msi_lookup_irq
, Paul Mackerras
, (Sun Jan 28, 3:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Sun Jan 28, 3:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 3:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/6] msi: Kill msi_lookup_irq
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 3:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 4:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, David Miller
, (Sun Jan 28, 4:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, David Miller
, (Sun Jan 28, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, David Miller
, (Sun Jan 28, 4:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Sun Jan 28, 6:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 10:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, David Miller
, (Sun Jan 28, 10:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Sun Jan 28, 10:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Sun Jan 28, 11:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Mon Jan 29, 1:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Mon Jan 29, 2:03 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Michael Ellerman
, (Mon Jan 29, 3:11 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Mon Jan 29, 1:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Mon Jan 29, 1:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Paul Mackerras
, (Mon Jan 29, 4:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Paul Mackerras
, (Mon Jan 29, 4:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
, (Mon Jan 29, 4:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Segher Boessenkool
, (Tue Jan 30, 12:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups
, Greg KH
, (Wed Jan 31, 9:29 pm)
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